[…] by Dell Paperbacks. It came out around the same time as John Marks’ The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, a rather anodyne book which, after dealing with CIA and military LSD experiments which caused at least one unwitting victim to jump out a window, decided that ‘mind control’ of the Manchurian Candidate variety did […]
[…] however, is decently produced and a ‘clean’ read. The story of the drug culture of the sixties and seventies is important and entertaining; and while it still leaves all the loose ends loose – was the whole thing a CIA social experiment which ran amok? – this is the best account we have to date.
Russ Kick (ed) New York, The Disinformation Company, 2003, 350pp, $24.95 / £17.99 (available in the UK from Counter Productions and Turnaround Distribution) ISBN 0-9713942-4-5 This is the third compilation of essays from Disinformation, and, unlike the first two, nearly all the essays in this anthology have been written specifically for this publication, with […]
[…] Howard Rosenberg from CBS (who used the database several months later to scoop a story that eventually resulted in a conviction for Oliver North). It took the CIA 13 months longer than Ace Hayes to place an order for this database, and it took the Soviet embassy 8 months longer than the CIA. Who’s […]
[…] the Kennedy assassination! Life truly is a disappointment sometimes. Insider view Jeffrey Bale (see Lobsters 18, 19, 21, 29) sent me the following from Leo D. Carl’s CIA Insider’s Dictionary of US and Foreign Intelligence, Counterintelligence & Tradecraft (Washington, DC: National Intelligence Book Centre, 1996). ‘Lobster: title of an antiestablishment newsletter published two to […]
[…] pensions etc.(13) to be left to the politicians and the electorate. This seems to be a very common, if not near universal phenomenon. Think of the FBI, CIA; think of post-war Italy. Less well known examples are constantly being reported as the history of the Cold War is revealed. The invaluable Statewatch (May-June 1996) […]
[…] ACSI agreed with the method applied to enhance their conventional interrogation standards. Although little concern was shown, the question of co-ordination with other agencies such as the CIA and FBI was raised. The final decision was made that the co-ordination with the other agencies would be postponed until after the conclusion of the field […]
[…] seemed the likely proximate cause. I think I was probably wrong about that. In his Eclipse (reviewed in this issue) Mark Perry reveals (p. 43) that the CIA were angry with the Greek government because (a) they had released from jail two people the U.S. thought were terrorists, and (b) they had then expelled […]
[…] source of what was supposed to be off-the-record briefing, was given as deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs in charge of media operations, Bryan Whitman.’(22) CIA and Indonesia ‘Ghosts Of A Genocide: The CIA, Suharto And Terrorist Culture’, a long account of the American (and minor British) involvement in the slaughter in […]
[…] defence establishment with the Americans. Symbolising all this is the fact that the Carlyle Group’s representative on the QinetiQ board is George Tenet, the Director of the CIA at the time of the Iraq invasion. The Carlyle Group was established in 1987 to exploit tax loopholes in Alaska, but really only took off in […]
